NOLA Distilling is excited to announce that we will be participating in THREE Tales of the Cocktail Events this year serving up our award winning NOLA Vodka made from Louisiana grown …

NOLA Vodka

Our signature spirit, NOLA Vodka, is made from 100% local Louisiana sweet potatoes. We source all of our potatoes from Deshotel Farms in Avoyelles Parish.

From potato to bottle takes about 2 weeks, and you can see the whole process live at our distillery! Our sweet potato mash has no added sugar or grains, the only things we add are water, enzymes to assist in breaking down the carbohydrates into sugars, and yeast, to convert the sugars into alcohol. Distilled twice, NOLA Vodka is unlike any other vodka you’ve tried before. With a hint of sweetness, an earthy base, and a smooth finish, you can easily mix it in your favorite cocktail. We think you’ll want to savor the flavor and enjoy it neat, or simply poured over ice.

Pepper Vodka

We’ve kicked things up a notch with our pepper infused vodka! With our signature vodka as the base, we carefully infuse it with roasted peppers grown at Press Street Gardens. This spirit has the right amount of spice to make you feel the burn without needing to call the fire department.

Press Street Gardens, located in the Bywater, is part of the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, a magnet high school that encourages local kids to follow their creative dreams. The only thing we care more about here at NOLA Distilling, aside from producing high quality spirits, is making sure that we support our local community.

This spirit will certainly wake you up! Bloody Mary’s have never been better, but we also love it paired with fruit juice (think pineapple), or in our version of a Moscow Mule (the Donkey Kick). We’re beginning to play with this one, so let us know if you have any ideas or suggestions. As we turn towards cooler weather, we will be rolling out some drinks to warm you up!

Coffee Cruiser

We partnered with French Truck Coffee to make the perfect on the geaux drink! At 18% alcohol, it’s the right amount of kick to get you up in the morning, pregame a late night party, or simply enjoy as a post dinner drink.

Tailgates have never been so classy.

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Clear Rum

Made with local molasses our Clear Rum will not be distributed, but will be available for purchase in the tasting room. It is bottled at 114 proof, so we are having lots of fun kicking up our frozen cocktail game, as well as mixing up some old fashioned classics.

Our philosophy is simple

Our Process

We believe that quality spirits start from the ground up. With local ingredients, and a hands on approach, we take the science behind distillation seriously.

Local Ingredients

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Here at NOLA Distilling, we know that creating the best, highest quality products starts with the ingredients. That’s why, when possible, we use locally sourced components. We believe in supporting the local economy and helping to create sustainable agriculture in our community.

Mashing & Fermentation

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All of NOLA Distilling’s products are made at our facility on Tchoupitoulas Street. The first step in distilling spirits is to create a mash. Creating a mash is the process of taking our fresh grains or sweet potatoes, adding water and heating it up. Then we add enzymes to breakdown the starches into sugars.

We add selected yeasts to the mash, and send it to the fermenter. The yeast eats the sugar and converts it into alcohol and carbon dioxide. This process can take anywhere from three to five days.

Distilling

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It’s time to run the fermentation through our copper, 16-plate still. We gradually heat up the still to the boiling point of alcohol where by it turns into a vapor and can be easily separated from the other byproducts of the fermentation. Our products are each distilled differently, allowing us to create unique and delicately flavored products.

Our vodka is distilled to get a pure, smooth flavor and powdery, fresh aroma.

Maturation

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Some things do get better with age, and that is why we will be cask aging our vodka and gins for special releases. All of our whiskeys will be aged until they have reached the perfect blend of wood aging and smoothness. Our whiskey products are aged in American white oak barrels that are freshly charred.

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We're an independent, small batch distillery making handcrafted spirits for the city we love. New Orleans is known as the birthplace of the cocktail, and it's this history that inspired us to start NOLA Distilling.